CEO behind GTA Trilogy calls out Rockstar's "d*ck move" for removing his studio's name, claiming that "hundreds of fixes" had "stayed out of players' hands for years"
Nov. 15, 2024Grove Street Games was removed from the GTA Trilogy collection’s splash screen in the latest update
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Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition, which includes GTA 3, San Andreas, and Vice City, was full of bugs when it first released and generally wasn’t considered to live up to the ‘definitive edition’ part of its name. However, this week it got asurprise update that made some massive changesin the form of bug fixes, quality-of-life improvements, and visual upgrades, including a “Classic Lighting Mode.” All in all, there’s never been a better time to try the collection, but players also noticed that, mysteriously, Grove Street Games' name has been scrubbed from the collection’s splash screen, which studio CEO Thomas Williamson has now called out.
“Speaking [entirely] hypothetically: It’s a dick move to remove primary developers from credits in an update, especially when an update includes hundreds of fixes that were provided by those developers that stayed out of players' hands for years,” he writes on Twitter.
Williamson’s comment also follows GTA fans noting thatGrove Street Games appears to have unfollowed Rockstar Games on Twitter, which suggested that the team behind the Definitive Edition might not be best pleased with the original GTA studio. Now, it certainly seems likely that that’s the case for Grove Street’s CEO.
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